Birmingham, for the second year running played host to the in successful Young Rewired State, National Festival of Code, a week-long hackathon culminating in a weekend of show-and-tell, talks and celebration at Birmingham's Custard Factory, with local centres at the BBC, Mailbox and Birmingham City University. This brought together over 600 hundred young people across the country, some as young as 5, many of whom have taught themselves to code from their bedrooms, to the social, educational and economic potential of coding.